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In recent decades, several United Nations (UN) organizations have made efforts to change global agri-food policies from a model promoting corporate industrial farming to one advocating agroecological family farming.
This shift has garnered support from some of the UN’s most active member countries, farmer organizations, civil society, and academia. However,...
Japan
журнальная статья
2024
Agricultural extension has long been the subject of scholarly critiques for its hierarchical approach to knowledge transfer and its complicity in promoting agricultural intensification and farm sector consolidation. Here, however, this study suggests that there are already-existing examples of different kinds of agricultural extension practices, ones that challenge the capitalist—understood...
журнальная статья
2024
This paper aims to share and analyze the difficulties and discomfort that social scientists may face when conducting transdisciplinary research. Focusing on the case study of a research project that brought together farmers, farm advisors, social and biotechnical science teachers, and researchers interested in seed management and participatory plant breeding,...
журнальная статья
2024
This omnibus film presents several young families practicing organic or natural farming in different regions in Japan including Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Gojo City, Nara Prefecture. Some of them are refugees of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident of March 2011. The director of the film, Mr. Okada who is...
Japan
Видеоматериал
2024
This article traces the coming of a genetically modified (GM) cotton-agrochemical complex to highland eastern India. In this region of rich biodiversity and Indigenous systems of food and agroecology, GM cotton cultivation has seen a meteoric rise over the past decade. It explores how this shift from a no-input polyculture...
India
журнальная статья
2024
Soils, the basis of agroecosystems, have been generated and continuously modified not only by the interaction of physical, chemical, and biological factors but also by human activities, driven by local values and knowledge. The way different peoples relate to soil thus reflects diverse ways of knowing and being, and has...
Mexico
журнальная статья
2024
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